Mandarin Chinese

Mandarin Chinese Stage 1:

Complete beginners, students with little or no knowledge of the language.

Indicative topics and grammar

• Introductions/identifying people/asking for directions/work/opinions/invitations
• Initials, finals & Tones/Third-tone Sandhi (1)/Interrogatives with ‘ma’/Questions with ‘ne’/Narrative Sentence
• Order/Chinese Basic Strokes/writing Chinese characters/rule of stroke order

Mandarin Chinese Stage 2:

Any of the following: 

• The successful completion of Stage 1 (one year of study)
• GCSE (A*-B) or an equivalent qualification
• ‘AS’ level Grade C-E
• IB Standard level 3-5, or Higher level 3. 

Indicative topics and grammar

• Asking time/Hailing a taxi/Describing health problems/Expressing volition, indicating necessity/renting a house/room etc  
• Sentences with the optative verbs (1): 会, 能, 可以, 应该/Sentences with serial verb phrases (1): Purpose/Sentences with double objects (2): 教, 问etc

Mandarin Chinese Stage 3:

Any of the following: 

• Successful completion of Stage 2
• AS level A*- B
• GCE Advanced Level grade C or below
• IB Standard level 6-7 or Higher level 4-5

Indicative topics and grammar

• Sports/Emphasizing time and location of past events/Talking about direction & location/Past experience/Making appointments or comments /Looking for a job etc
• Construction of “是…的”/Location words/Sentences indicating existence/ Contradictory conjunctions/ Complex directional complement/ etc

Mandarin Chinese Stage 4:

Any of the following: 

• successful completion of Stage 3
• GCE Advanced Level grade A*-B
• IB Higher level 6-7

Indicative topics and grammar

• 第33课 保护环境就是保护我们自己-第34课：神女峰的传说-第35 课：汽车我先开着-第36 课北京热起来了 etc

• Subject-predicate phrase as the predicate/Interrogative pronouns of indefinite denotation

• Non-subject sentence/Construction 连…… 也/都…../ etc